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Sarah McLachlan, Blue Rodeo headline 2023 Salmon Arm Roots & Blues Festival
March 06, 2023 - 10:40 AM

The Salmon Arm Roots & Blues Festival always includes some of Canada's top musicians, and 2023 will be no different.
Salmon Arm Roots and Blues Festival will return in 2022
December 08, 2021 - 11:03 AM

After a two-year hiatus, the Salmon Arm Roots and Blues Festival is coming back next summer.
Salmon Arm Roots and Blues Festival will have to battle more than COVID-19 to return to normal
August 14, 2020 - 7:30 AM

The Salmon Arm Roots and Blues Festival is taking an online approach during the pandemic this year, but whether it will return next year and in what format is anyone’s guess.
Salmon Arm Roots and Blues Festival pulls 2020 event
April 21, 2020 - 9:09 AM

Summertime event planners had high hopes that COVID-19 precautions would lift before their shows were expected to go on but that's just not the case. Now the Salmon Arm's Roots and Blues Festival is one of the first to announce it will fold for 2020.
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Why butchers are making a comeback in B.C.
Being a butcher is much more than standing in a freezer and hacking meat with a knife, and a butchery instructor in Kamloops says the craft is rising in popularity. Corey Davison is an assistant teaching professor in the retail meat process

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Penticton company building 60 tiny homes for Kelowna's homeless
One of Penticton’s longstanding construction contractors has landed the contract to build 60 “tiny homes” to house the homeless in Kelowna. Greyback Construction Ltd. landed the contract with the City of Kelowna and BC Hou

Sarah McLachlan, Blue Rodeo headline 2023 Salmon Arm Roots & Blues Festival